PENSIONS IN BRITAIN

Evening Star, Issue 20309, 18 October 1929, Page 8

PENSIONS IN BRITAIN

EXTENSIONS OF ACT REMOVING BAR TO MIGRATION. Association—By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 16. In the Government’s Bill, which extends the provisions of the Act passed by the Conservative Government in 1925, giving pensions to widows of men who come under the State health insurance scheme _ pensioners are allowed to reside in any British dominion and to keep up voluntary insurance for pensions, and for a limited period unemployment insurance, thus removing discouragement to migration. —Australian Press Association-United Service. PROVISIONS FOR WIDOWS. (Britiib Official Wirckas.) RUGBY, October 16. The new Bill has a retrospective provision granting pensions to widows aged fifty-five to seventy, of men of the insured class who died before the Act of 1925 came into force or were over seventy on that date and _ therefore no lonsrer came under health insurance. At the n<re of seventy w’dows are to receive old age pensions without any disnualification or reduction for means, residence, or nationality, as hitherto. Widows fifty-five who receive pensions for children are to draw them until the youngest child is sixteen instead of fourteen and a-half as now. It is estimated that 500,000 more widows than hitherto will receive 10s a week under the new Bill. The cost to the State of the measure will be about £8,000,000 a year.